The Deck of Omens

ah.........

i think this sums up my feelings about this book. i don't know, generally this book is fine, it's alright, but i'm also severely disappointed?

the premise for this series is extremely cool and the characters had a lot of potential, i liked them a lot.

but somehow this sequel just missed the mark completely for me. i wasn't a fan of the romances, i wasn't happy with some of the big “reveals” of the town's past and i didn't really vibe with the main antagonist at all.

although i was pleasantly surprised that harper broke up with justin at the end and for the exact reasons why i didn't like their romance. so, good for her in that aspect

i also think that this book could have been way shorter. like, theoretically its length could have been a great way to build some tension and suspense but that is not where this book went at all in my opinion. there were just too many scenes that were just a short list of events that happen, like “and then the charas do that and then they do that and now we are here”, that just broke any atmospheric moments for me. and then there are the last..... idk 40 minutes of the audiobook that could have been shortened so much. this is just personal taste and i know some people really prefer it when authors do this, but i didn't like how every character needed to get their last scene in to resolve everything, a quick "where are they now" if you will. i personally think that the scene with the funeral of isaac and gabriel's mom would have been absolutely fine as the last scene entirely, the epilogue wasn't interesting at all to me, it just destroyed the nice flow that the scene before it had created which is a shame.

all in all this book just gets an “okay” from me